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Dec. 7 2011

The Hamburg Robotic Telescope HRT is a project for the observation and monitoring of activity phenomena on cool stars. HRT is an automatically operating telescope which is equipped with a fibre-fed Echelle spectrograph.

The 1.2m telescope was manufactured by Halfmann Teleskoptechnik, an enterprise located near Augsburg, Germany. The telescope was tested at Hamburg Observatory during 2003-2004. Commissioning was in 2005.

The only instrumentation is the HEROS spectrograph of the Landessternwarte Heidelberg which is connected with the telescope via a fused silica fibre. First spectroscopic light was in autumn 2007. Since that time, spectroscopic observations of cool stars have have been carried out but were restricted to the blue channel of HEROS. Commissioning of the red channel will be in summer 2009.

Future

It is planned to install the telescope at another site: at La Luz in central Mexico (altitude 2400m). La Luz is the astronomical observatory of the University of Guanajuato. An agreement between the University of Hamburg and the University of Guanajuate was subscribed at the end of 2008. The Mexican partner will start with the installations (building) in 2009.

Scientific goals